GOP vs. MAGA: The Next Civil War.

All year long I’ve been listening to this nonsense about how we are headed towards another civil war — from my friends on the Left because they have nothing else to be worried about, from those dummies on the alt-right because it helps them sell a few more banners and shirts.

But even if we still haven’t finished counting all those phony votes in Nevada and Arizona, the bottom line is that the so-called MAGA effort to change the whole political tilt of the country is going to fail for the same reason that the attempt by the Confederacy to remake America during the real Civil War failed, namely, because the so-called MAGA ‘movement’ has run out of manpower and out of steam.

When the first cannon was shot off at Fort Sumter in South Carolina, the Confederate states had a total population of 8.6 million, the Union’s number was 18.9 million. There were also 3.5 million people living in the ‘border’ states who sent men to fight on both sides, but more to the North than to the South.

So, the bottom line was that the Union army led by Grant was more than twice as large as the troops that took orders from Robert E. Lee. And this disparity meant that Grant could plan and implement a strategy based on going into every battle with a larger army than the other side, which is exactly what he did.